Doughboys - Unlocked! Wawa with Carl Tart & Christine Nangle (LIVE)
Episode Date: January 9, 2020Unlocked! For our first ever show in Philly, we're joined by Carl Tart (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and hometown hero Christine Nangle (Inside Amy Schumer, The Simpsons) to review Wawa, a ...convenience store iconic to the city. Plus, the first-ever live edition of the Snack Stack.Recorded live at Punch Line Philly on Sept 5th, 2019.Sources for this week's intro include:Everything You Need to Know About Wawa, the World’s Most Beloved Convenience Store (By Jessica Gentile)https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/201354/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wawa-the-world-s-most-beloved-convenience-store/Creating the Living Brand (By Neeli Bendapudi and Venkat Bendapudi)https://hbr.org/2005/05/creating-the-living-brandConvenience Cult? (By Rob Walker)https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/magazine/30wwln_consumed.html?_r=050 Things About Wawa for Wawa’s 50th Anniversary (By Dan McQuade)https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/04/16/wawa-50th-anniversary-50-facts/The Cult Of Wawa (By Amy Lombard)https://mashable.com/2016/03/09/the-cult-of-wawa/Wawa Corporate Websitehttps://www.wawa.com/aboutThe Inside Story of Wawa, the Beloved $10 Billion Convenience Store Chain Taking Over the East Coast (By Maria Aspan)https://www.inc.com/magazine/201806/maria-aspan/wawa-convenience-store-pennsylvania.html13 Fun Facts About Wawa (By Erin McCarthy)http://mentalfloss.com/article/56255/13-fun-facts-about-wawa#targetText=1.,as%20the%20Millville%20Manufacturing%20Company.Wawa Bathrooms Voted Number 1 In Pa. And Number 2 In U.S. (by Stephanie Farr)https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/wawa-best-bathrooms-gas-stations-pennsylvania-20180516.htmlWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Embrace Change. This is one of the six core values espoused by a privately held convenience store chain that's beloved by residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
And this company, named for the Ojibwe word for goose, Embrace Change as few businesses have, beginning operations as an iron foundry way back in 1803.
It morphed into a dairy that delivered doctor certified milk in the early 20th century, before shifting again into its current retail state with the disappearance of the milkman in the 1960s.
But as locals will tell you, don't be fooled by the gas pumps. This is no mere convenience store.
Offering an expansive freshly prepared food menu that includes made to order hoagies and specialty drinks, the chain's better than it has any business being fair led to it developing a fervent following bordering on rabbit.
Jackass Cast Member and Pocahontan Township native Bom Bam Margera even has a tattoo of the shop.
And being classified as a convenience store, conveniently enough, exempted it from blue laws, allowing it to be the rare restaurant open on Sundays in the 60s.
Its employees seem to love it too. The chain has an astonishingly low turnover rate in the notoriously transient retail sector, and many of its workers train at the chain's own co-branded university.
Beyond the food, the stores enhance the customer service experience by offering an array of appealing amenities like no fee ATMs and number two in the industry public restrooms, just behind rival chain sheets.
Today with 800 privately owned locations, however this chain will choose to shift as it inevitably embraces change in the future, history indicates it will uphold another of its six core corporate values.
Delight Customers This Week on Doughboys, Wawa!
Thank you guys, go Burtz.
Guys, we're very excited to be here in Philadelphia, but first up, give it up for YouSong and Emma, just helping us out right now.
Could not do the show and especially this tour without them, and we also couldn't do it without my co-host. This week's roast is courtesy of Andrew Clark.
Let me introduce him, Rocky with twice the CTE and half the eyesight, The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell!
What's up, Billy?
Oh boy, what a roast.
A lot of Rocky takes. I will say that...
I went to the bathroom last second.
Why did you do that?
I don't know. Let's just say I got some soggy pants.
It is not good. I ran back to catch your roast.
You waited too long.
I know, I fucked up, I don't know.
That's what you get for not wearing a diaper for once.
I had a similar mishap earlier. Our train was boarding, we rode the Amtrak here.
No, this was bad.
It was the same thing.
Who loves the choo-choo?
Yeah, I love the train.
I don't know how you fucked up so much where you're like, I gotta go to the bathroom.
And I was like, can I go to the bathroom? I was like, no.
You did not say that.
I said no, and I was like, I'm just kidding. Do whatever the fuck you want. You're an adult.
Everyone's assessment was that I had plenty of time.
No, we did not. I did not say you had plenty of time.
I feel like everyone said you were good.
And the lines started moving. You almost missed the train.
I didn't almost miss the train. I just had to hop back in line.
And you carried my Gatorade and Carl rolled my bag out. It was fine.
And then you peed immediately after the train.
Do you have a no pissing on train rules or something?
I had a tied one on last night, let's just say.
We had a little over...
You had like two glasses of wine.
I had...
That was a lot for me.
No, I got ripped.
I get wine mom drunk at my age.
I have a couple glasses of Chardonnay and then I'm hungover the next morning.
I was feeling pretty dehydrated, so I drank a bunch of water in the morning.
I got to the Union Station in what city were we in?
Washington, D.C.
And I had to...
Oh, man.
I know.
You said I had CTE?
I had to hear your name.
Last night, it was the first stop on the tour.
I know.
And then I drank a Gatorade on the train to replenish my electrolytes.
And then I had to urinate again.
It was two hours.
I drank a big beverage.
This is reasonable.
So boring.
This is reasonable.
You asked me to explain why I urinated twice in a two-and-a-half-hour span,
which is a reasonable amount of urine for adult men to dispense.
We've talked about this.
We know why.
Yes.
You're a piss edger.
We talked about this before.
You like to wait.
You like to hold it.
You like how it feels.
If I was a piss edger, I would take...
I would have fewer urination instances than average,
because I would be trying to maximize the pull, right?
Like, trying to maximize the resistance.
You tell me.
I don't know what you do.
Mitch, I introduced you as the Spoon Man,
because last night, our second show in D.C.,
a development took place.
I am the Spoon Man.
The Spoon Man is back.
The Spoon Man's back.
For Philly, I've rowed upon the Skookle River, Nick.
I've had Pats and Genos,
and they're not that great, right, everyone?
And you've never even fucking been to Philly.
You piece of shit.
But you know what cheesesteak is?
The great D'Alesandros?
That's so pathetic.
A guy told us that earlier.
I'm just trying to trust him.
And you maybe got it right.
Yeah, I think so.
That's right, right?
D'Alesandros?
Is it just...
Okay.
I didn't hear what he said.
People are sending me roasts of you, by the way.
Are they?
Yes, I want to...
Well, we have a packed house.
There's rock and roll bands here tonight.
The group...
Someone from the band, The Pairs.
Pairs and Seagull.
And one of them said, instead of Meek Mill,
that you're Meek Spill.
Oh, that's pretty good.
You told me earlier, by the way,
there's someone in the front row with the...
Yeah, Heathcliff shirt, which I very much appreciate.
Yeah, the...
There's some Quincy here tonight, too.
Quincy seeped into Philly.
Really?
Yeah.
Who's here?
My sister's friend, Mo Sullivan is here.
Oh, hey.
How about that?
That's exciting.
Yeah.
Can I say what I texted earlier?
Yeah.
Okay, wait.
Tell me that Pairs and Seagulls are here.
Someone from the band, Pairs,
and someone from the band, Seagulls, are here.
What?
Pairs and Seagulls are here?
What is this?
A 12 days of Christmas?
The guy for Pairs is applauding.
You liked it.
Nick, what do you think of Philly so far?
I mean, you won't be able to see it at all.
No, I mean, I don't really have much of an...
Outside of the chains, which we spent some time in
and had some meals in,
like I don't know how much of an honest assessment
I can have of this place.
I'm doing like a Philly speed run.
I got in and then we went to our lodging
and then we went to go eat food,
then we went back to our lodging,
then we went here.
It's been like a seven-hour work.
I don't like how you say our lodging.
It's strange.
All right, sorry.
Yeah, we ate, I slept, and then came here.
That's it.
Yeah.
But Philly rules, Nick.
My understanding is that today,
and I don't follow the NFL,
but today is opening day.
Yes.
Today is opening day.
Yes, go birds.
How many of you made that mistake?
I bet you there's a lot of people today
who are like,
fuck, it's an NFL opening night.
Shit.
Fucking Doughboyz tickets.
This sucks.
Well, one of them kind of looks like alignment,
and one of them kind of looks like an assistant coach.
You look like you could work at Penn State.
Jesus Christ.
You're a Sandusky boy, my friend.
You want to go by Penn State so bad?
We could swing by real quick.
Can I get his autograph?
Nick, he's in jail.
Fucked up.
Sorry.
Oh, it's all right.
Me, you can do anything.
You're just commenting on it.
Yeah, that's true.
I'm a hero kind of.
Speaking of football,
my understanding is that there is a player
for the Philadelphia Eagles,
a quarterback whose nickname is Big Dick Nick.
Is that true?
That's true.
Which, who is that?
It's Nick Foles.
Nick Foles, the QB?
Yes.
But he's not, he's not, yeah, he's gone.
Oh, he's gone.
He's gone anymore, yeah.
What's that?
They were saying that his dick is still big.
His dick is still big.
Oh, his dick stayed here.
Oh, it's like the Liberty Bell.
It's just like a monument in Philly now.
That's nice.
You're going to be Googling Nick Foles all night tonight.
I'm going to be hearing fucking keyboard noises
coming from your room at 3 a.m.
Those football pants don't leave a lot to the imagination.
Get a pretty good outline there.
How else are you, like, how are you feeling?
Because we've done a lot of travel,
we've done a lot of heavy eating.
I'm sick, you know this.
I'm sick.
I don't think you're sick.
I think you're telling yourself you're sick,
but I think you're actually in pretty good health.
It feels like there's a black hole at the end of my throat.
It feels terrible.
Do you mean you're esophagus?
What do you mean?
Look, let's not think technical here, okay?
My throat hurts, that's all I know.
But what you characterise is a black hole.
I don't know, it feels like a mass back there.
Well, a black hole is something
from which no matter can escape.
All right.
Fuck you, for God's sakes.
My throat hurts.
I just didn't understand what picture you were trying to paint.
You couldn't even make just a joke about how I am
like a black hole, food goes in there or something
and it doesn't come out.
Oh, got it, yeah.
No, this was more fun.
To break it down.
No, my throat hurts.
I slept most of the day.
I didn't get to see a lot of you,
which is good, of course.
You woke me up, though.
You're a little human alarm.
So you tasked me with waking you up,
which was no easy feat.
You were taking a nap, you were getting some shut-eye.
Spoon Man was catching some z's.
I knocked on your door,
wrapped on your bedroom door
to no avail.
What the fuck is going on here?
You didn't hear me. I had to open your door.
I was already going to walk in there
and you were going to be, you know, splayed out or something.
And...
What?
Like I was going to walk in and you just be kind of laying there
American beauty style.
With rose petals around me?
Yeah, with some...
some places...
some appropriately placed rose petals.
No, but I just thought I might go in there
and see something that maybe I didn't want to see
and maybe you wouldn't have wanted to see.
You thought I was cranking it in the bedroom?
I didn't think you were cranking it because I knew you were asleep,
but you know sometimes when you're asleep,
you'll like throw off your covers
or you'll just like discard an article of clothing.
No.
Is that not a universal experience?
You slink out of your clothes like a snake
when you sleep?
I will sometimes shed some layers if I get hot
at night and I won't realize I've done it.
Oh, God.
But anyway, I pair that sound a universal experience.
You shared a room with Yousong
a couple nights.
He didn't experience that, I hope.
And so...
but you were so... you were like completely out
and then you were snoring, you were sawing logs.
I really had to do a lot to rouse you.
It was not easy.
Oh, poor Nick.
No, I'm just saying, I really... it was not an...
it was no easy feat.
Oh, wow, you're a hero. You woke me up. Fuck you.
I didn't say I was a hero.
I just said you were sleeping very heavily.
Okay, sorry.
Someone's cheering for you.
Thank you.
Thank you, that one person.
Mitch, uh...
I'm looking at Nick's running show diary
and it just says Google Nick Foles later.
Mitch, should we introduce our guests?
Yes.
We got some hometown guests, too.
Oh, your drop.
You forgot your drop.
Oh, for fuck's sake, the drop.
You forgot your drop.
You forgot your drop.
You forgot your drop. Oh, for fuck's sake, the drop.
The third...
third consecutive show you've forgotten to do your drop.
Howdy-how to Spoon Nation.
And you song or am I hitting with that drop?
And it's called How Did This Get Played?
They ripped off a show that people like.
Okay, let's listen to the trailer.
Ah!
Is this whole show this loud?
And this is Heather and Campbell.
And we love video games.
I like your magic. Mitch listening to this
just being so pissed.
Hey, everyone. Thanks for listening.
There it is.
Hayes was right. I do listen to that and get pissed.
That drop was from...
Are you ready for me to...
You song, I lost...
You texted it to me and I lost it already.
Oh, wait, I got it. It's from Shampooedler.
Oh, Shampooedler. How about that?
And the email...
The body of the email just says, hey.
That's it.
That's nice. Why do you live to start shit?
Why is that like your agenda?
Who, me?
Yeah, you live to start shit.
Because I don't like you fucking...
You're a coward man.
A worm coward man?
Yeah, you're a worm coward man. You heard me.
How so?
You're a fucking little worm. You hide in the dirt.
And I dig up that dirt and I say,
look me in the face, you fucking worm.
Again, I'm lost in your metaphor.
I don't understand.
You're a coward.
How am I a coward?
I don't know. I love you.
And I was...
I had a bunch of rose petals around me,
but you didn't walk in at it all the time.
I will just say that yes,
I have a second podcast that I've started.
It does not...
It does not mean I'm not doing...
Continuing to do this podcast with you, my friend.
And we will...
I don't think you... Maybe you're worried...
What the hell?
I wasn't worried, but now you're stuttering and...
No, I'm not...
I'm being sincere here. I'm being earnest.
I'm not worried about it, baby.
No boys on top.
There's clearly something going on
because you're so...
You have such a strong...
No, there isn't. I'm also not the place in time
to do this.
Bring out our guests for God's sake.
This is not the place in time to discuss this thing
that I started with this drop
I chose to play in front of an audience.
It's a fun drop. Get our guests out, please.
I'm just saying...
Fuck you! Get the guests out!
I'm just saying, I think it's okay
for me to do another podcast.
I don't give a shit.
Then we're fine. Then we got nothing to worry about.
Do a million podcasts.
All right, great. I will. Maybe I will.
Maybe I'll start some more.
Some... A tepid reaction to that.
That's enough for me to go off of.
I can build an empire.
Mitch, we've got some...
We've got some great guests.
First up, from Drug History,
Comedy Bang Bang and Brooklyn Nine-Nine
makes some noise for Carl Tartt!
What up?
Our second guest
has penned her own intro.
From Inside Amy Schumer,
Crawl Show, The Simpsons,
St. Martin of Tours School
and Little Flower Catholic
High School for Girls,
give it up for Christine Nagel!
Wow.
Ha-ha-ha!
Ha-ha-ha!
Ha-ha-ha!
Ha-ha-ha!
You're getting the box!
Ha-ha-ha!
Ha-ha-ha! Wow!
Ha-ha-ha!
Holy shit!
So for those of us not in the venue,
Christine entered
through the audience
wearing what I guess is a
Rocky-style American flag robe
and handing out snacks to everybody.
A lot of fun. A lot of fun that was.
Snatched everybody's wig.
Ha-ha-ha!
I have all these wigs.
Uh, hi.
That ruled.
You guys should go home now.
Yeah, that's the peak.
Yeah, it was a homemade Nangang.
I ironed on Nangang letters on the back.
Wait, let me see.
Show the crowd. Turn around and show the crowd.
Holy shit! Wow, there it is!
Wow!
Wow!
Hey, hey!
That's so weird!
Ha-ha-ha!
That ruled.
Did anybody make any Sandusky jokes yet?
Did I miss any Sandusky?
Yeah, there were a couple. Mitch made a couple.
Just a couple.
There'll be more.
It'll be a theme.
Nangle, you are from the Philadelphia area.
Yeah.
So we've got an iconic Philly chain
that we're going to discuss today in a bit,
or on the end of this.
Wait, wait, wait, Nick, Nick, Nick, before you get into that,
I said that there'd be surprises on the tour.
Oh, boy, okay.
We have another surprise guest,
but they're coming in through video.
Oh, very exciting.
If you want to lower the lights a little bit
and play this message for Nick.
Here we go. Can you lower the lights?
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
That's right.
That's right, John Taffer.
From Bar Rescue.
From Bar Rescue.
Should have been Sandusky.
There goes the screen to reveal the pipes.
Oh, it's pipes like a skyline.
Oh, it's like a skyline.
That's a lot of fun.
Mitch, what was Taffer's cameo rate?
Taffer came in at about $100, I think.
Taffer's...
Why do you say cameo rate?
He's my friend.
So, Taffer's cameo
is less expensive than Stormy Daniels
who you had for our first DC show.
That's right.
Taffer less than Stormy.
I guess Stormy is trying to strike while the iron is hot
because she knows she's not going to have, you know,
maybe in a year or two.
Whoa, hold on a second.
I'm just maybe in a year or two she won't be as topical.
Drag her, Nick.
So...
Drag her, Nick.
Drag her ass.
No, I'm not going to drag anyone.
Drag the nice lady that made a nice message for you.
I liked it. I'm not trying to drag her.
I'm not trying to shame her.
Drag her ass, Nick.
I'm not dragging anyone.
It's great to see your tepid reaction to videos
that were such a pain in the ass to do.
Wow, look at that!
Oh, that reminds me.
I did an episode of How Did This Get Played,
which is Nick's other podcast.
It was really fun.
I had a great time doing it, Mitch.
Wow. Thank you, Nangle.
We were lucky to have you.
I can't wait to be on it.
You're not going to come on it.
Yeah, no shit.
So, Nangle,
outside of the...
what you're going to cover, Rita's Italian Eyes,
what you're going to cover in our late show,
what do you eat?
Do you gravitate towards...
I know there's a topic we've covered previously
on the podcast,
but here in front of a hometown crowd,
I thought you might have some places
that you might like to shout out.
No, I don't...
Okay, another comes to mind.
Wow.
Big swing, Lager.
How could you ask me that?
Well, that's the only note I have.
I did talk about this
which was soft pretzels
being such a Philly institution.
Yes.
And how, like, it was just totally normal
that we just had soft pretzels all the time.
And did anyone else here...
Did you have them at school all the time?
Yeah.
Why is it such a Philly thing?
Is it softer here?
What's going on?
It might be.
Okay.
No, this is a genuine question.
Mitch, I think it's softer here
because you're in the city.
That's good.
Someone just said the Pennsylvania Dutch,
which...
I guess they need it harder.
They pull the dough better
because they're Dutch...
No, they're German.
I knew that.
But those are the...
I don't want to repeat myself because everyone here
is familiar with my Olive Garden episode.
It was my first episode.
I remember I did that episode
and I walked out and I was like,
that was fun, so you'll edit that down.
And you were like, no, no, we usually let it go.
And it was an hour
and 41 minutes.
That's all right.
Pretty brisk Doughboyz episode.
Yeah.
Carl, where do you fall in the pretzel wagon?
Are you a pretzel freak?
You know what?
I'm not a pretzel freak.
I'm a closet pretzel freak.
Interesting.
I'll say this.
At the mall,
the pretzel spot with the cinnamon sugar pretzels,
those hit hard.
Are you talking to Auntie Ann's or are you talking to Wetzels?
Auntie Ann's.
I'm sorry, it's Annie Ann's.
Yeah.
That's why you came here.
All right, hold on a second.
You didn't hear this.
I had an aunt Ann, okay?
And I miss her.
I had an aunt Ann and I miss her also.
Oh, fuck.
All right, that's a draw.
So, wait, so you like the sweet pretzel?
I like a sweet pretzel.
Dusted with some cinnamon, maybe a little bit of that cream dipping sauce?
Oh, yeah.
All right, a little bit of that sweet cream.
Oh, yeah.
I guess I always go savory.
And I always go, you know, I like a little bit of mustard
or some cheese, some nacho cheese.
I feel like that's my usual order.
I'm not a salt. I'm a big salt guy.
I'll tell you this about pretzels.
When they're real hot, like if you had a game
or something like that and they're real hot
and you dip it in some cheese or something like that,
you're like, yeah, this was a good choice.
And then that bitch gets cold and you're like,
why am I eating this hard-ass piece of bread?
Man, I was at a wrestling show a few nights ago
all out in Schomburg, Illinois.
Weiger went on a wrestling road trip
before he came on tour.
I did, yeah.
Why?
What's the highlight so far?
No, it was like,
but I'll just say this.
I had the worst pretzel of my life
at the Schomburg.
It was so fucking whack.
And it was one of those things where it was like,
I could look at it and I could tell it looked old.
I was like, this thing is so fucking
just looks like a piece of twisted leather.
But I ordered it anyway because I had no food in my stomach.
I just had Burger King
earlier that day.
And then I got it and it was so fucking bad.
It was so cold.
And it was like tough.
It was awful.
Schomburg, consider your ass drag.
Well, I feel like there's pretzels
that are served.
I guess I haven't really seen them anywhere else.
But in Philly,
they used to be sold on the medians
out of paper bags.
Really?
You guys do love pretzels.
What the fuck?
Yeah, there's these vending machines
that you... No, there's people.
And I don't think they really do that anymore.
But they were shaped...
Northeast Philly does.
What a place.
I'm just kidding.
And they're shaped a little differently
than they are when you get them
at, like, more commercial venues.
They're kind of, like, more oblong
than the ones, like, the Bavarian pretzels
that we're used to.
I think that's the only interesting thing about me.
Um...
They have two holes instead of three,
I guess is the way you could say it.
Also the... Whatever.
Wow.
It's not that kind of podcast.
Oh, yes, it is.
All right. Don't be thirds.
I had super pretzels in my fridge growing up.
No one cares about super pretzels, apparently.
Are they way... Those are frozen ones
that you heat up in the microwave?
Yeah. Okay. I've never had that.
I've never had, like, the Costco big box of pretzels.
We were a taquito family.
Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
Uh, yeah, no, we had a big box of super pretzels.
You heat up... You put a little water on it,
and then you sprinkled the salt on there.
Right. It was a dream.
It was a dream for me.
Hmm.
I like a wet pretzel.
Yeah, wet pretzels are...
I would... I like a wet pretzel
more than I like a dry pretzel.
Me, too. Like, the wet, though. Like, wet.
Like, soaking wet? Not soaking wet, but wet... wetter.
Wet with butter. Got it.
Like, sort of fresh... No.
That's not what I meant, but it's fine.
You mean wet with water?
Like, it's been in the rain?
I don't care how it gets wet.
So, if it fell... If it fell in the pool,
you'd be like, that's cool.
Yeah, I would be like, oh, awesome,
that guy's got a pool.
That guy? What is this...
I don't know. ...scenario?
I'm putting myself back
in Philly when I lived here
and grew up here, mode,
and if someone had a pool,
that would have been awesome.
But we went in the fire hydrant.
No, it's bad.
There was a cop that lived on my block
and he had a key for it
and he would put it on.
But in the absence of that,
there would be, like, you would find out
on a hot summer day, like, oh,
the fire hydrant over on Horrocks
and Rosalie's on, and everyone would, like,
run over to that corner,
and then you'd be like, you're not from my block.
It sounds like you grew up in 1920s.
I know. It does.
It does. Everyone was pushing a hoop
in a stick around.
Office of cop key would come by.
And we'd all...
Our pretzels in the pool.
I'll tell you to me about this city
what's less realistic come to Philly
is that Rocky ever existed here.
Just the amount of food
that you guys eat,
I don't think Rocky would have
made it up the stairs, for instance.
The tasty cakes.
I've had more sugar today.
You guys love...
You're, like, hummingbird-level sugar lovers.
I've had so much sugar today.
It's crazy.
A half... Look it.
Look, I'm not trying to get into the restaurant,
but a half-and-half, half-ice-tea,
half-lemonade at Wawa
should not cover
all your sugar for a day.
That's insane.
Says you.
Can we...
You know, I think it's about the point
where we can start to transition into it
because Wawa is...
Oh, God.
No, what are you talking about?
I think that this is now the point in the show
in which we should transition into the restaurant.
Yeah, we can get into it.
You said I didn't want to get into it.
Transitioning.
You said I didn't want to get into it
and I was telling you that it's fine.
I was taking your side.
I was taking your side.
All right, I want your side, too. We're friends.
You're in a movie.
Why do you care if I have another podcast?
Myths will be starring
as Moon Walker and Moon Walker 2.
Mike's back.
So,
we were in D.C. for a couple of days
and close to where we were staying,
close to our lodging was a
a Wawa.
They have expanded to D.C.
and I was contemplating, should we go to this Wawa
and I consulted Nangle
and I think we decided the right move
was to actually go to a proper Wawa in Philadelphia.
But...
Fuck D.C., right, everyone?
We're gone now. Fuck those people.
They suck.
I was walking to Target
with Yu Song and
he was like, I think Nick
wants us to go to this Wawa
tomorrow. I was like, Yu Song, that's the worst idea
in the world. We're going to Philadelphia.
Kill us.
You saw what they did to Santa Claus.
Was Yu Song on your shoulders?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I carry Yu Song
in a baby Bjorn.
I have a question, Lisa.
You saw what they did to Santa Claus and someone booed.
Were you booing what they did to Santa Claus
or were you booing Santa Claus?
Was it right that they threw batteries at him?
Is that what you're trying to say?
They threw snowballs.
I worked with a guy from Philadelphia
and someone brought up them throwing batteries as well.
That guy.
Cheering my co-worker.
I worked with a guy from Philadelphia
and he corrected us once very sternly
because we were like, they threw batteries
at Santa Claus and he was like, wait, hold on.
We threw snowballs at Santa Claus.
There were batteries in the fucking snowballs.
It wasn't Santa?
Oh, you're saying it wasn't the real Santa?
Oh, that's fair.
It was Santa's friend.
One of his helpers.
We weren't there. Maybe he deserved it.
We weren't there. I don't know.
It's possible.
Look, if you're not Santa and you're going to wear
a Santa suit that's stolen valor as far as I'm concerned.
So...
So the wall won DC and I checked.
I knew we weren't going to go there.
I make a living off that shit.
Of what?
Of dressing up as Santa.
Every time early, like early November,
I get calls that are you ready to play Santa again?
I say, fuck yeah.
Give me my $50 for a day of work at Santa.
Every comedy video,
I play fucking Santa.
I'll do this funnier die,
Hyundai branded spot for $75
in the form of a gift card.
So...
Wall won DC not well reviewed.
And it may be a little bit like,
ah, it's got two and a half stars on Yelp.
Has this chain not...
Because it exists
well outside of Pennsylvania, right?
But maybe it's expanded a little bit further
outside of its original range.
It wasn't always in DC, yes?
DC's broken. DC's broken and we all know it.
Yes.
Got it. Got it.
Let me tell you, those fat cats,
the system isn't working for everybody.
And if elected,
I...
Wow.
Will make the Wawa in DC
better and immediately leave because it's so humid there.
It's very humid. Wow.
That's all.
There was a ton of mosquitoes there too. Fuck DC.
A lot of mosquitoes. Yeah.
I had a lovely time. Yeah, the blood suckers in DC.
They're blood suckers
and they're just taking your money.
That's all. That's all.
So we went to...
We got into Philly.
We trained in here.
I urinated a second time, which Mitch called attention to.
We went to our lodging
and then we went to the South Street location,
which seemed like a newer Wawa.
It seemed like a newly constructed Wawa.
Ooh, mixed reaction.
Well, we had a fan we ran into
outside who said, I was hoping you'd go
to this Wawa, which was interesting.
Why he picked that one.
I'm sure there's more than one on South Street.
20th and South Street?
Is that it? I don't know the streets here.
What...
What was that reaction?
Oh, shit.
They're holding batteries in the air.
It's good.
Do they think I'm Santa?
Oh, shit. New song. Get the Bjorn.
Time to strap up.
Meanwhile, that's how I get my batteries.
So, the first thing I'll say about
Wawa is that it's...
is the touch screen ordering
is...
I mean, it's the future.
It feels like very...
like a lot of other chains have appropriated this now.
But using it in
Wawa, it's like, oh, this is very...
this is pretty elegant. I will say that it
timed out on me twice.
Like twice, I like made a sandwich
and then it said, are you still there or whatever?
And I couldn't get it to
I saw he was...
he had his finger like this and it said
order canceled and I waved my hand
in front of his eyes.
And he didn't react.
Maybe your fingers aren't warm enough.
That could be the issue.
Got to warm up your fingers.
Yeah, it could be my cold blood.
So, I couldn't get the...
So, I had some issues with it, but it is, like,
really nifty to...
even though a little intimidating for a first-time
customer, which I wouldn't get it to,
but it was intimidating for a first-time customer,
which I was...
What was intimidating about it?
It's like, hoagie, yes, no.
Lettuce, okay, cheese,
sure, love, Wawa.
Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
The issue for me is there's so many, like,
decision points. There's so many...
They kind of get locked into analysis paralysis
where I'm like, okay, which of these veggies
do I want? Which modifications do I want to make?
You know what I mean? It's just... There's so many decisions.
No, no one agrees with you.
For me, I'd like to make fewer decisions,
but I like that it has the...
I know a lot of people prefer
a customized ability, and it's easier
to get exactly what you want
for through a touchscreen
rather than through communicating it
with someone behind the counter
who's maybe harried and has a bunch of other things going on.
Right, because then you'd have to talk to a Philadelphia
and, honestly, nobody wants to do that.
Ha, ha, ha.
I'll avoid it. I'll admit it.
Ha, ha, ha.
But you guys like the touchscreen.
I loved it. I loved it as well. I had no issues with it whatsoever.
Ordered my sandwich.
It came out in record time.
I tell you what, I did, like, a lot about the touchscreen.
I was nervous
that I wasn't going to be able to
add extra mayo to my sandwich,
which is how I like my sandwiches.
Extra mayo.
And, lo and behold, goddammit,
there was an option for extra mayo.
Ha, ha, ha.
I was like, oh.
Oh, okay, wow, wow.
I see you. We outch it.
You were nervous.
You were talking about that days ago you were nervous
about the extra mayo.
I was like, Christine, how does the infrastructure
of your city work?
How much mayo?
I need to add extra mayo to my sandwich.
Ha, ha, ha.
And when I went up to the screen,
it used facial recognition.
I was like, Nangang, where you been?
The only thing, there was supposed to be
a secret menu on the screen.
You're supposed to touch a bird or something?
Bottom left.
Oh, wow.
Don't yell out bottom left of the live show.
I think it's on the top right.
Jesus.
Sorry.
We got to deal with it now.
I don't know.
You think that's what someone would yell out?
Bottom left.
What?
It's like telling a guy that his date left.
It's a grinder date is what I'm saying.
I couldn't find the secret menu.
Yeah.
It's okay. I was fine with that.
I had plenty of other stuff to order.
It actually asked me right away, extra mayo.
I hadn't even ordered anything yet.
Yeah, ask you if you want a mayo outside the bug.
A cup of mayo?
Yeah.
There is, so there's
all sorts of places.
I didn't really know what to expect.
I'd looked at some pictures, but walking inside,
there was just so much stuff.
There's cold sections.
There's prepared food that's ready to go.
Can I say I got mad at you because you immediately
went right over to the cold food section,
the prepared food,
and picked up like a yogurt with granola
or something.
I didn't do that.
You examined it.
Fine.
I didn't put it in my inventory, I just looked at it.
And what did you learn?
What did it teach you?
That they have a lot of
Wawa branded snacks.
They have a lot of stuff.
Okay, I did pick up the Chobani.
Chobani.
Nick, we got this.
This dirt over here going into a Wawa
picking up a Chobani like there ain't a
Wawa yogurt right next to him.
Excuse you.
Jesus.
Coming in my city picking up a Chobani
right in front of all my friends.
Oh my God.
I swear.
I'll bring you.
God, the Philly accent is...
Oh my God, everyone at this table is rock hard.
Whoa.
Wow, you can't see it.
Did you see the table rising?
Sorry.
I'm looking at my Google search for Nick Foles.
And I'm definitely not helping with that table.
But there is like so much and like, you know,
there's sections with a, you know,
there's warm pretzels just sitting in a section.
There's a whole bunch of drinks in another section.
There's all this stuff you can order off of the touch screen.
Yes, a convenience store.
No, but it's just like, it's a lot of stuff.
It's different than what you would see in,
you know, a 7-Eleven's not really an app comparison
because 7-Eleven's usually have a smaller footprint.
But like, it's like, there's like an
AMPM, a place that's usually a little bit bigger,
a little bit more sprawling.
It's got so much stuff that's specifically
branded Wawa.
It's specifically Wawa's own food.
And it all looks pretty high quality.
All of it, but what I tried, like, you know,
it seems like it's stuff where they're,
they've got pretty good product.
I'll also say, let me touch on this real quick.
So I read going in that the bathrooms were
revered and that was an element
in my intro that I touched on.
You were reading about Penn State.
I think.
So I went in there.
Okay, in their favor is that they have
a code on the restroom,
but they had the code just like written
in tape on the outside of the door.
So it was just like, there was
no reason for the code to even be there.
Two, two, two, two, if you're over there.
So we went in, so I went inside
and I got to say,
not blown away.
It was fine.
By the bathroom?
By the bathroom, yeah.
I was just expecting more.
What'd you do there?
Number one.
That's it?
Yeah, just number one.
Okay.
Why are you eyeing me suspiciously?
I don't believe it.
I think I went into a wah-wah and cranked off.
Yes.
Number three, my friend.
You know, it was fine.
I mean, they had soap, which is a huge thing.
You know, sometimes you'll go into
like a service station bathroom and there's
no soap and that's just, it's not hygienic.
The toilet was reasonably clean
and, but they had the accelerator
hand dryer, which is not a great hand dryer.
What are you talking about?
I just wasn't blown away by it.
What?
I've never, I've never heard you talk about
the bathroom at a place that you reviewed before.
Great, I do not listen to this podcast,
but I feel like anytime I've been on it,
you've never talked about the bathroom.
I looked into it because they said it was notable.
The accelerator rules.
I don't like the accelerator.
Why don't you like the accelerator?
It's just, it just doesn't get the job done.
Yes, it does.
I don't think it, I know.
What are your hands?
It blows dry, it's one of the best in the game.
Look, I'm really scrubbing up in there,
so my hands are pretty wet.
Ugh.
You taking your shirt off?
I think that the,
I just think like as hand dryers go,
look, I think my issue is with hand dryers in general,
but I don't think the accelerator is like,
it's certainly not anything where it's just like,
oh wow, these bathrooms are great.
They've got the accelerator.
I'm just like, well, I've seen the accelerator
in like airport bathrooms.
Airport bathrooms aren't anything special, you know?
I don't know, I just,
I had higher expectations for the bathroom.
Maybe that's on me, but it didn't quite live up to them.
But let's get into the first one.
Wow.
I'm just saying.
You said it, let's go.
I was expecting that shitter to be pristine.
It was not.
So we went in and we got,
I got myself a, when you order your sandwiches,
you can get a junior hoagie, which is four inch,
a shorty hoagie, which is six inch,
and a classic hoagie, which is 10 inch.
And.
Just got a hell yeah in the audience.
I got a classic hoagie spicy Italian,
which is the thing they have right now.
I got it on a, okay.
Here's what I'm going to say.
If this is about the bathrooms,
I'm going to lose my.
It's not about the bathrooms.
The accelerator just isn't that great.
I don't love the accelerator.
I'm not a local.
This is my first time in Philadelphia.
It's possible.
I ordered things in a way that are not,
it's not the way you're supposed to order it at Wawa.
If that's the case, get on my back.
Give me a break.
I was doing my best.
I was trying to navigate the touchscreen.
I just made some decisions.
If he fucked up, boo the shit out of him.
So I got a spicy Italian on a wheat roll.
No.
It's okay.
It's okay.
I think that's okay.
Untoasted.
Here's the thing you need to know about Nick Weigher.
He's a bit of a wheat seeker.
They're going to get some dietary fiber.
So we, it has ham, capicola and salami, garlic,
chili.
And I believe what makes it spicy is that cherry pepper relish,
which is a sauce they put on there.
Provolone, spinach, tomatoes, onions, I think are added by default.
And I added to that some pickles and some hot peppers.
And it was a, it's a, oh, and I got double meat and double cheese.
And that was one of the things where.
Wow.
I want them back.
I wouldn't have done it, but it asked me.
And I was like, well, I got to do it.
I felt obligated to say yes.
It was a very stuffed sandwich.
It was like an overstuffed sandwich.
Good to know if I'm ever bombing at a Philly show to just say,
double meat and double cheese.
Yeah.
It's a, and yeah, that was the, that was the sandwich I ordered.
Hey.
Oh, cool.
Let's uh.
Let's just start another podcast.
You're good at this.
Let's go down the line and everyone say what we ordered.
Okay.
Um, now I'm not one of you East Coast Yankees.
I got what I wanted to eat and I ate it and it was good.
Okay.
Uh, wait, do Yankee is your perception?
I just, I want to let them know.
I didn't order.
Things that we don't want to eat.
Yeah.
You just eat too much shit.
Too much on there.
All right.
So I got, I went simple.
I got a classic 10 inch on white, uh, toasted all the way.
Uh, ham and cheese, uh, ham, provolone, extra mayo, regular mustard,
lettuce, tomato, onions, spicy pepper,
oil and vinegar, salt and pepper.
Wow.
And uh, that's it.
I think so.
Oh yeah.
I forgot to mention I had salt and pepper and oregano on mine as well.
What is it?
Did you get it toasted?
Yeah.
I got it toasted.
Uh, Mitch, tell, tell us your order and then I would hear what Nangle got.
All right.
Should I tell you just my sandwiches or should I tell you?
We'll start with sandwiches.
Okay.
We got a lot to be fair.
That's me and Carl, but there was quite a bit on there.
I just got a sandwich.
No, no, no.
Before you go for that, take the rest of the show up.
I, um, I also bought a bag of spicy hers.
Oh yes.
Yeah.
Hot chips.
And, uh, I got a, uh, two YY beverages, uh, a watermelon lemonade and, uh,
fruit punch that I have yet to drink because I drank half of the watermelon lemonade.
I was like, I'm good.
Yeah.
That watermelon lemonade, you showed me the nutrition facts on the back.
51 grams of sugar in a bottle.
96% of your daily allocation of sugar.
There's a third, there's a third column there.
That's your percentage.
If you're from Philadelphia though, and it's just a bunch of question marks.
Uh, all right.
Let's see here.
One box laxatives.
One box extends penis growing pills.
Those were a wild wild brand.
They got Nick Foles on the packaging.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
48 grams of sugar.
It's a bottom left brand.
It's on the secret menu.
That was it.
That was the job.
Um, I got my, I got two sandwiches everyone.
The first one was a shorty, which is fun.
Toasted meatball.
Palmer John liked it a lot and then I went in the same neighborhood.
I got a junior chicken strips.
Palmer John, the chicken, the breaded chicken cutlet sandwich.
Um, they ruled.
They were really, really good.
I was really blown away by the chicken.
The chicken Palmer John sandwich for look.
I'm going to save some of that for the, the, the wrap up, but right.
It was good.
It was surprisingly good.
I took a nibble of your of the chicken strip sandwich and I agree.
Guys, please very good.
It was not a nibble.
I would not have allowed that.
I would not have allowed him to do that.
He took a bite of the sandwich.
Mitch just mimed Nick nibbling his shorty.
Oh no.
Or wasn't your junior.
It's the junior.
I adorably chipmunked Mitch's junior.
And I thought it was pretty, I thought it was like quite good.
And I liked the meatball.
I'd had so much bread at that point that I just had the meatball,
but the meatball itself.
I was like, this is a like a good quality meatball.
Like this is like, this is what, like this is better.
You know, again, better than I expected.
Um, my spicy Italian sandwich.
First off, it was overloaded.
That's my fault.
And again, you know, I got paralyzed by the customization,
but the quality of ingredients was very good,
especially for the amount I paid for it.
Like this is just like so much better than a sandwich
that you would get from most subplaces, right?
Like what is, this is like, what did you say?
Hoagie.
Someone fucking escort her out of here.
Someone escort Nick out of here.
It's a hoagie and it deserves to be addressed as such.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
A hoagie.
I have a college degree.
It's fine.
It's fine.
Go Nick, honey.
Look, this is just a, it's a regional thing.
You call them hoagies out here.
I'm used to calling them subs.
We know what we're talking about.
It's okay.
Let him be.
We know what we're talking about.
Let him be a gentle boy.
Let him be.
So I've been into my sub.
Yeah.
He'll turn.
He'll turn.
Weigar.
This sub was certainly not sub par.
You want them back?
Your pun won them back.
Host it.
Host your batteries, everyone.
Host your batteries.
We got them back.
He said it wasn't sub par.
I call it a goddamn sandwich because it's meat in between brand.
That's not wrong.
I really like the garlic aioli.
It's not particularly hot, but it did have a little bit of spice to it.
I think the meat was very good quality.
I think the bread was great.
Actually, this is a thing, Mitch.
You've got just a roll with butter.
That's true.
I'm getting some applause for that.
I like it.
Which was fucking insane.
It was the shorty one and a six inch roll with butter is huge.
It's so big.
Six inches is big to you.
We know.
Is that too much?
No.
I agree.
It's pretty big.
It's normal.
It's normal.
Even if it's smaller, it's normal.
It's funny because it was basically just like a butter sub.
It was cut open with butter inside of it.
I liked it.
Those were some great bites I had there.
They were good.
You get it as a side with your mac and cheese.
Which is fucking insane.
It's so much starch.
Why when you order a mac and cheese?
I got a small mac and cheese.
Why does it then offer you a roll with butter?
Why?
Is that a Philadelphia thing?
It's in the charter.
I was very surprised.
I was happy I got it.
It was a very nice bite.
It was good.
It was a great bite.
Carl, how was your sand dough with extra mayo?
It was good.
Yeah?
It was surprisingly good.
I put the chips on it.
The spicy chips.
That was good.
That was a great choice.
I applaud myself.
Yeah, it was solid.
I liked everything about it.
The meat tasted good.
The cheese choice was good.
I got no complaints about that there sandwich.
I had some nibbles of your sandwich.
Oh, God.
Very adorably nibbled my classic tenage.
Classic.
Classic.
I think that was my favorite sandwich of all the ones I tried.
You're just very basic, simple sandwich that you got.
Just the quality ingredients really shown through there.
It was delightful.
Now, Nangle...
Yes, Carl has the best one.
What did you say?
Nothing.
Okay.
Sandwich-wise, what did you get on your most recent visit and do you have a go-to as someone
who's been to Wawa a few times in your life?
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Well, I went with my mom and that was fun.
I got a shorty on white and they have a roasted vegetable choice.
It was so good.
I got double vegetables and then I put a bunch of pickles and onions and vinegar and stuff
like that on it.
I think they recommended...
I think it was cheddar cheese and it was toasted.
It was so good.
I'm not just saying that because I'm desperate for this to be in the Golden League.
I was really, really impressed by it.
I also ordered an egg sandwich.
They do these omelets and so my mom and I were splitting them and the egg sandwich was
good.
They recommended cheddar cheese.
I went with it.
They recommended it and I think that that was a mistake on their part because the cheddar
cheese was not good on the egg white omelet sandwich.
Wow.
Yes.
That's okay.
It's okay.
One thing that I did notice, I don't know if you guys noticed this, is my mom was eating
half of the veggie sandwich and my mom has dentures and it was too chewy for her.
The roll was too chewy, which I then noticed like, yeah, actually the roll was kind of
chewy, but I didn't mind that too much.
Then I also got a...
I got a Tasty Cake Lemon Pie.
Yeah.
Like a little lemon pocket, which is something that you can kind of get Tasty Cakes in other
cities, but there's only a few that you can get.
There's a...
Wawa has its own selection and it's just like little pocket that is like covered in like
a sugary glaze.
Tasty Cakes are pie.
Interesting.
Don't look into it.
Don't look into it.
Don't.
Interesting.
Don't you dare look into it.
And it was...
And I also...
Oh yeah, and I got a soft pretzel.
Wait, what kind of soft pretzel?
A fucking Wawa soft pretzel.
No, but because I was like...
You told me in advance to go get a soft pretzel and I saw all the soft pretzels there and
they have like some room temp soft pretzels and plastic and then they also have under
a heat lamp, they have a cheese stuffed and a...
What was the one you got?
I got both.
You got the cheese stuffed and the other one.
I got the cheddar cheese stuffed soft pretzel and the sweet cream cheese soft pretzel.
E-A-G-L-E-S Ego.
I got the...
I got just a pretzel and a bag, you know, soft.
So that's the room temp one they have at the register.
Yeah, and I always think that they're good.
I like them no matter what and I eat them just like with...
I don't even put mustard on them.
I just eat them in the car and I think I'll bring this home and then I eat it in the car.
And what I will say about the Tasty Cake was it was so good but it was so sugary.
It kind of knocked me out for like two hours.
I was just like, yeah, it was so sugary.
I didn't even eat the whole thing.
But it was fun to go to these...
I went to a couple of different places while I was home visiting and I was with my parents.
They live out in Hatfield now and...
Give the address.
1600 Philadelphia Avenue.
But I grew up in the city.
Anyway, there was this...
When I was waiting for my sandwich at the counter and everyone there was super nice.
I went out by them on like a 40-foot road out in Hatfield.
Whoa! Or Lansdale.
Maybe that was technically Lansdale.
And it's also a gas station.
That's all.
But they had like little free samples out.
I guess they were trying to get people to sample their iced coffee drinks.
And they had this like...
It was a frozen mocha cappuccino.
And they had these little cups out and this lady next to me...
She was like in scrubs.
She was a nurse or a doctor or something.
And she was like drinking one and I was like, oh, there's free samples.
What are those?
And she goes, freezing cold coffee.
She said it like that was the name of the product.
It's a freezing cold coffee.
I tasted that and that was super good too.
So, yeah, I was really impressed.
I wanted to be impressed and they impressed me.
Wow!
How often when you were living in Philly proper, how often was Wawa a place you would go to?
When I was growing up there...
I have a bunch of friends here from St. Martin of Torres High School.
And so I grew up in a neighborhood called Oxford Circle and then moved to Northwood.
And we didn't drive or anything.
So there was a 7-Eleven two blocks from my house.
Okay.
So the thing you would do is like hang out at someone's house and then walk to 7-Eleven and then walk back.
And that was like the thing that you did that night and you would get like a frutopia.
That's still kind of my weekend nights.
Still getting them frutopias.
And so mostly like growing up until I was kind of a teenager, it was mostly 7-Elevens until I started kind of getting out into the world.
And then it was Wawa.
And then when I went to college, I went to college in West Philly and there's a huge Wawa, several huge Wawa's all over campus.
And my go-to drunk food was a plain bagel with like triple cream cheese.
Wow!
I've thrown up more of those than anyone has eaten.
So Wawa was big and I always preferred Wawa coffee to like to dunk donuts and stuff like that.
Wow.
Yes.
I'm correct.
It's kind of fucked up.
I'm on the right side of history.
I'm going to talk about the coffee real quick because I did-
It is fucked up, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Squeezy.
Did you guys notice this guy's Patriots hat?
Oh boy.
I was at Super Bowl where you guys won.
I agree.
You're booing me?
They won.
The Eagles won.
They beat me.
The Eagles fans said I was nice.
I was a nice Patriots guy.
I was congratulating them.
Fuck you.
You ruined my day.
The Eagles won.
Go, birds.
Oh, fuck you.
Tom Brady said to Nick Foles,
look, you got a bigger hog than me.
I admit it.
It's funny, one thing I'll say about that.
I might have brought this up before,
but it's so weird to me that for us,
it's totally normal to say go birds,
but if you're not from here
and people are screaming go birds
and there's like just billboards with no context
and say go birds.
I would be-
If someone was yelling go birds on the corner,
I'd be afraid of them.
Go birds.
Well, either you're supporting birds
or you're kicking birds out
of the city.
It's just a thing we got.
It's just normal for us,
but you know,
sometimes you got to look at things
from an outsider's eye.
Right.
Go Pats.
Someone said man.
Go Pats, baby.
Boom.
Good.
That was my heel turn.
I love it.
Mitch, don't do this.
Mitch, we talked about this.
Don't do this.
Don't do this, Mitch.
We talked about this.
Sorry.
Like this is my thing
and I just wanted to-
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Thank you.
Oh, God damn it.
The coffee was-
The coffee there is good
and they have a huge array
of different blends.
You can-
And I kept it simple.
I went with a classic blend.
I get the regular blend
because I like a medium
to light roast
and they're regular.
Thank you.
And then I revisited the bathroom
and let me tell you.
It was good coffee
and I'll say this in-
This sounds like a slam,
but I don't mean as a slam.
It compares favorably
to 7-Eleven coffee to me,
which I like.
It's like a quick
to-go coffee option
and for something that's not
freshly brewed,
it's something that's sitting
in containers that have been
there for a while,
for maybe hours.
It's good quality coffee.
I liked it.
It perked me up in a good way.
The pretzels I want to
dig into in a little bit.
So I also got a cheese stuffed
soft pretzel.
I liked the savory ones.
The sweet one was-
Sweet one is string.
That sweet cream is a lot.
It's very-
I mean, Carl,
you like a sweet pretzel.
What did you think of that bad boy?
I liked that joker.
I didn't mind it.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah.
I thought it was good.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
It's different.
I don't hate it.
It's like a warm Danish,
which isn't what I was expecting
from a pretzel.
Yes.
Yeah.
But it was pretty good.
I think-
I was saying earlier that
pretzels are kind of ubiquitous
in Philadelphia cuisine
and to me,
like having the flavored versions
or the dipping sauces
is kind of new.
It's always a surprise.
Like, I'm just so used to a pretzel
with mustard.
I don't know if other people
feel that way.
But it's-
Like, really, it's just-
It always feels new to me.
I'm like,
oh, yeah, we do that now.
When we've been doing it
for many a year.
It's just always a surprise to me.
I'm like,
right, right, right,
flavored pretzels.
Mitch,
do we discuss the mac and cheese?
We both got it.
We did discuss it too much.
I think the mac and cheese
is bad in the best way.
What does that mean?
It means that, like, it's bad,
but I like it.
Oh, I gotcha.
If that makes sense.
Yeah, I know.
I get it.
I'll say about the mac and cheese.
Yeah.
It was better than some fast food
places that have mac and cheese.
Like, it was definitely better
than, like, KFC mac and cheese.
Right.
Uh, I-
I mean,
you know,
eating mac and cheese
is a damn gas station, isn't it?
They're not all gas stations.
What this one wasn't.
Yeah.
Mac and cheese
at a corner convenience store.
It made me think-
it specifically made me think
of KFC's mac and cheese.
And I was like,
eh, same sort of thing as-
yeah, it's like a little better,
but it's at that same tier.
KFC's mac and cheese feels
so chemically processed now.
Right.
Like, this one
still felt kind of-
kind of authentic.
You know what this tastes like?
If you eat at the hot bar
at the grocery store.
Oh, sure.
That was that kind of mac and cheese.
Right.
And I'm fine with that.
I got a-
so, as far as-
you can customize your drinks on-
and I know the crowd here
knows this,
but for our listeners out there,
you can customize your drinks
on that touchscreen as well,
and they have a very extensive
cold drink menu.
I got myself a mango poo-
Oh, boy.
What the fuck?
Mango-
Mango poo.
Hold on.
I was trying to say-
I knew I had to say
smoothie is my third word.
I got ahead of myself
as I was reading.
You knew that you had to say
the third word?
You were planning out the third word
that you had to say?
I inadvertently made a portmanteau
of peach and smoothie.
I had a mango-peach smoothie.
That's what Nick had to say
when he went number two
when he was little.
Mom.
Mom, I inadvertently made a portmanteau
of peach and smoothie.
Okay, honey.
Like, till your father gets home.
I had a mango-peach smoothie
and they let you add yogurt,
and I said,
sure, why not?
So I added some yogurt.
It was great.
It was a great dessert.
I really liked it.
It's like a great sweet treat.
And you get a like-
I mean, it's like super-duper dense
and filling and sugary,
but it was delicious.
I really enjoyed that smoothie.
Mitch, did you get anything
in the drink department?
Yeah, let me go back to my list here.
So, like I said,
I had the Wawa lemonade,
half lemonade, half iced tea.
The sweetest Arnold Palmer
I've ever tasted in my life.
This receipt is $900.
If you pour this iced tea
in Arnold Palmer's mouth, he's dead.
He would come back to life.
Let's start pop-locking.
I drank that down
and then I also bought
a strawberry lemonade.
And I took a big gulp of that,
and then the lady behind the counter
was like, you have diabetes now.
She gave me insulin
and I was on my way.
Insulin in cheese pretzel form.
Also, Nick, I just want to go over it quickly.
Got myself a bag of hers cheddar popcorn.
Yeah.
You made hers yours.
Not as big as the pops I wanted on hers.
What's that?
Nothing.
Yeah, I got a hers cheddar popcorn
and then the mac and cheese.
That's it.
The two soft pretzels.
I did good, everyone.
I tried to really fucking...
God, you're so mad at us
for so long for not doing Wawa.
Trying to get everything in the fucking store.
I snuck my own treat in there.
At the register,
they had these things called
Louis Buttercakes.
Oh, boy.
That's right.
I'd like to know y'all's opinion on it.
I'm the guy who was just
chanting Big Dick Nick.
Do y'all like that?
What are you doing, Carl?
I don't know what they were saying.
I'll take it for you guys are indifferent.
I got one of those,
is it the Wawa coffee thin?
I got a Wawa coffee thin
and I set it on top of my coffee cup
just to have it a place for it to rest
because counter space was limited.
Because it was sleepy.
It needed to sleep.
It melted.
I didn't actually get to eat it
as it was supposed to be consumed.
What a story.
I like that they offer it.
I like that they sell it.
But yeah, let's get to our final thoughts
on Wawa.
We're going to say our review.
We're going to give it a fork score
from zero to five forks.
And, Nangle, I think you should start
because I think we know what you're...
I think your score is most predictable.
You don't know me.
The rest of us are wild guys.
You don't know me.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Don't come over here
and be like, I know you.
You literally said,
I want it to be in the Golden Plate Club.
Yeah, but it can be that with four and a half, right?
That's true, yeah.
It could be in the Platinum Plate Club.
Hi, guys.
That was way too much time
without me talking, right?
So, Wawa.
Gosh, what a place.
I had a great experience there.
And one thing I noticed is
it's kind of like you were saying, Carl,
about it being like grocery store mac and cheese
because it is just like a mini grocery store
and it's kind of gotten bigger over the years.
And one thing I noticed when I went in today
is like in the kind of like little...
the collars that are there
and they have like potato salad
and hard-boiled eggs and fruit and stuff
was they had eggs, like dozen eggs,
and then bacon, like leaning against it,
like uncooked bacon.
Wow.
And yes.
And I was like, that's what Wawa is.
It's like you go and you go,
like it's Sunday morning
and you're coming in from church or whatever
and you're just like,
oh, you have to get eggs and bacon
and they're right there for you.
Like, Wawa's like there for you.
And you're like...
No, psych.
I was not crying.
I picked up some peanut chews,
which are a filly thing.
I don't know if you guys know this.
A vegan snack, too.
And I...
buy forks.
Wow.
Wow.
Except...
but it's forks with a pH.
Wow.
Huh?
All right.
Do you get it?
PHO RKS.
Like Philadelphia.
Forks. No, I got it.
Oh, okay.
Like the fanatic.
Got it.
Carl Tart, your review, your fork score.
Let's get one thing straight.
I'm not here to pander to y'all.
Okay?
Just so y'all know that.
Some of y'all know my thoughts on this damn city.
No.
Uh, I've had a good time today.
In the city.
Wonderful.
Took a solid nap in a basement.
I don't know what that life is like.
We keep all our guests in the basement.
That's a nice basement.
I'm from, we have earthquakes, you'll die in a basement.
Must be nice.
Uh, overall, when we walked in that place,
immediately felt like a tourist.
Uh, and, but we got, I feel like overall,
I was looking around.
We got an authentic Philly experience inside of this.
Uh, while, while convenience store.
We were ordering our food.
We got our orders and everything.
Uh, and I kept telling Mike, Mike,
we got to pay before we get the sandwich.
We got to pay and, and Nick and Mike at,
at a big restaurant.
We got to pay and, and Nick and Mike at,
at a decision making time is, is like pulling teeth.
And so I'm like, come on.
I think I'm, I'm just going to have to buy this.
But, but, uh, so, uh, inside of there,
there was a dudes that pulled up in a,
like a Lincoln and they all walked in and got,
wow, wow food.
They looked like Philly guys.
And one of them looked a lot like Meek Mill.
And I'm not saying that as a joke.
I'm not saying that as a joke.
I was like, what's that?
Like, I know I'm not tripping.
Right?
That dude looks like Meek Mill.
And I looked around and like,
try to like confer with my colleagues.
And I was like, they ain't going to know.
Are they boys to men?
It was one.
Yeah.
And, uh, quest love was in there.
Is Meek Mill boys to men?
That's ridiculous.
But I enjoyed the sandwich.
I enjoyed the chips that I put on the sandwich.
Those drinks are too damn sweet.
More calories in those 16 ounce drinks
than in a 20 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola.
Too much.
Did you like it?
It's too much.
Did you like it?
Yeah, it was good.
Okay.
But I'm just saying,
we don't even know what Coca-Cola is.
That is a manufactured flavor.
We're supposed to be drinking that.
And yet, that is healthier than that drink.
We sat down and ate in the wild wild,
which not many other people were doing.
You just sat on the floor?
No, they had like tables outside.
I told Nick, I was like,
Nick, I think we should get this to go.
Ain't nobody else in here besides this other like,
crazy dude in the corner.
Filly Cop walked in,
had an exchange with the Meek Mill looking guy.
But it felt like,
it felt like he was like the neighborhood cop.
Like, oh, I know you.
And he was like, no, John.
And I'm going to give it 4.5 forks.
Wow.
Wow.
The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.
All right.
Jesus Christ.
No, I'm just listening.
I just want to know what you think.
Wawa to me is a funny name for this place.
Because when I'm leaving,
I'm not going,
wah, wah.
Flip it upside down.
I'm going,
wah, wah.
I am a 7-Eleven loyalist.
I loved 7-Eleven my whole life.
Hold on.
I think there's no,
in my head,
there's no way that wah-wah can best 7-Eleven, you know.
Wow.
But, hold on.
I was as wrong as those people
who bet on Ivan Drago against Rocky.
7-Eleven is Ivan Drago.
Wah-wah was Rocky.
Wah-wah knocked 7-Eleven out.
I'm going to sing a song to this.
I put lyrics to the...
Ready?
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on a second.
Wah-wah's good.
Wah-wah's great.
Cheddar pretzel.
Philly cheese steak.
Wah-wah is really good.
Wah-wah is really great.
5-4.
Wow.
I want them back.
They forgot about the hat.
Uh, Nagle has put on a Philly Fanatics hat.
Yes.
Very cool.
Philly Fanatics.
Philly Fanatic.
You know, the team, Philly Fanatics.
Oh, it's Singular.
It's a guy, not a team.
Got it.
The Philly Fanatics.
I only follow the...
They throw batteries at, um...
The Scoogle.
Sorry.
Look, I only follow the NBA.
Um, I enjoyed all the food I had from Wah-wah.
I enjoyed the wide selection of food they had there.
Is that your view?
The bathrooms were really built up
in everything I read about it.
Who built up the bathrooms?
It is your fault.
I did research and do it
and people were talking about
how great these bathrooms were.
Yeah, you googled, like, fast food bathrooms,
but that had nothing to do with going to Wah-wah.
You keep a list.
You googled hand dryers.
I was doing Wah-wah-specific research.
Yeah, right.
And the quality of its bathrooms.
This came off of Nick Voles' dick search.
That said,
at most I can deduct a half fork for that.
What?!
Because the quality of the food is very good.
And it's much better than I expected it to be.
And the wide array of drinks,
the service was very good.
We haven't really remarked on it.
The service is awesome.
But, like, they could be assholes there
and they're not.
Like, if you make a mishap,
like, you forget to pay,
which both Mitch and I did.
When I was saying the whole time...
Guys, I think we gotta pay.
Yeah.
It took Carl telling me that, like, five times
for me to do it.
I was just still shopping.
Yeah, but they'll be, like, 9.74,
waiting on payment.
And I'll be like, oh, okay.
Like, they could be dicks about that,
but they're not.
Like, the service there was very good.
Everyone was very friendly and efficient.
I feel like my sandwich was well made.
I feel like my sides were good.
I feel like my drink was outstanding.
Ooh.
Yes.
Something about the service.
So, I have a bit of a toothache.
Is there a dentist in the house?
I went to get a dentist.
No dentist.
That's a Doe Boys fan.
You think a dentist would pay money to have...
Doe Boys fans hate their teeth.
These guys be like,
it was a good meatball.
Here's $25.
See, here, like, I go,
it was a good meatball.
The girl behind the counter.
Yes.
The woman behind the counter.
Sorry.
She...
That's a good first start.
Okay, go ahead.
Go ahead.
The woman.
I was asking for Advil.
She gave me some.
She was like, do you have a toothache?
I was like, yes.
And she said,
you should put some clove oil on it.
That's what dentists do
after they take your wisdom teeth out.
And I was like,
thank you, Wawa Lady.
$4.75 forks.
Wow.
Yes.
Wow.
What does that mean?
What do you mean, what does that mean?
I don't know what the Golden Blade Club...
It's in right now unless Nick ruins it.
He already gave us.
What did you say?
Did you give yours yet?
No, I didn't get my score yet.
He's talking about the bathrooms again.
All right, sorry.
Look, put the bathrooms aside.
The food is great.
Just the fact that there are bathrooms,
it puts a notch above 7-Eleven
in and of itself,
because 7-Elevens never have toilets.
And everyone was great
and they've got a wide selection of food
and the food, the prepared food
was much better than expected to be.
It's like firehouse subs tier.
It's like good, like, their subs
are as good as firehouse subs.
Togies.
Don't be mean to him now
before he's gonna give his thing.
So I think this one
does deserve to be in the Golden Blade Club.
Four and a half forks for Wawa.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, my gosh.
I was so nervous.
I was so nervous.
Is the half fork deduction
because of the bathroom?
It's partly that.
Oh, my God.
I never think that I could,
I never thought I would say this,
but if Wawa's took over all the 7-Elevens
in the world, it would be better.
The world would be a better place.
Interesting.
I can't believe,
my 7-Eleven is near and dear to my heart,
but...
I'll be reporting this to Japan.
I will say one thing quickly.
Now that we've all logged our scores
and it's in the Golden Blade Club,
does anybody...
So the Pennsylvania Governor's Race,
like last year or something,
Wawa gave money to the Republican candidate
and Sheets gave money to the Democratic candidate.
Oh, interesting.
I just, I learned that.
It is a thing I learned.
Ooh.
Let's do a clap about it.
It's a thing.
What's our audience like?
Boo, they hate politics.
I don't know.
But us, yeah.
All these food corporations are monstrous.
They really are.
One of the biggest donors of the Republican Party
is Coca-Cola.
There's no fucking, there's no winners.
There's no correct choice you can make.
But it's still healthier than a Wawa drink.
Still healthier than a Wawa drink.
But yeah, don't try to be ethical
in going to chain restaurants,
because you just can't do it.
Move on from this for God's sake.
Why did you bring this up, Nick?
Sorry for introducing this topic.
Guys, that was our review of Wawa.
We've got some snacks from the audience.
And we're going to decide,
why should I put it in your mouth?
It's the debut of the Snacker Whack Snack Stack.
Look at how many snacks you guys brought.
You guys brought too much stuff.
Thank you for doing that.
But we can't taste all of it.
We're going to taste a few choice things.
The first thing we have up is
federal donuts.
That's right.
And I don't know what's inside this box.
I'm just cracking it open.
It's donuts.
It's a snake.
Well, it says donuts on chicken on the outside.
So I didn't know.
You thought there was a live chicken in the box?
It's possible.
I don't think it's possible.
We've got an array of different donuts here.
I don't know what's what.
I guess I'm just going to grab something randomly
and take a nibble.
No, just take a bite.
So we all can try the different donuts.
Okay, great.
I'm going to take a bite of this.
God.
This one has...
Oh, you brought them?
Oh, all right.
Yeah.
Tell us what they are.
What's your name, sir?
Matt.
Hi, Matt.
Hi, Matt.
Six fancy donuts they have right now.
They rotate them out every time.
Oh, now it's on.
Matt, your voice isn't picked up by the microphone.
You have no soul possibly.
Oh, my God, Matt, you're fucking up big time.
This is a real low point for me.
So it's carrot cake.
That's a low point for all of us.
Yeah.
Carrot cake, blueberry muffin.
There's a pastelito, which is like a mango thing.
One's blood orange.
And I don't remember the last one.
Cookies and cream, I think.
I think I'm having the blood orange right now,
and it's quite nice.
It definitely has some citrus to it.
Do you want a bite of this?
Yeah.
Do you want to give this over to Nagle?
Do you want to take a bite, not a nibble,
because I'm not a dirt person?
Okay.
Carl, which one do you have?
I think I have the Ponce de Leon.
What is this?
It's a pastelito.
It's mango and something.
It's great.
Oh, Nagle's handing me something else back.
Hold on.
So this is a local donut chain.
You sound like it got guava on it.
Yeah, that's guava, not mango.
Sorry.
Okay.
Yeah, same thing.
It's a local donut chain, and it's run by a guy who does fine dining mostly,
and it's incredible.
I prefer municipal donuts.
Is that a local spot?
No, it's a bad joke.
Oh, federal to municipal.
I understand what you change.
I still don't get it, but I am a fool.
These are good quality donuts.
Do they usually come hot and fresh,
or do they usually come like this?
The fancy ones don't come hot, okay.
This is good.
I can tell it's good ingredients they make here,
and it's a good pastry chef behind it.
Yeah, these are good.
Carrot on a donut is interesting.
No?
I never had a carrot on a donut.
Try it.
How?
How have I not had a carrot?
Everyone has had a carrot on a donut.
It's how they're served.
It's very good.
I'm going to say snacks all around.
Yeah, these are snacks.
All right, next up we have...
Every single donut was delicious.
I want real quick, it's just a funny thing that it's like,
oh, these are the fancy donuts,
because I can imagine like family members might be
and like, don't bring back those fancy donuts.
We don't need a fancy,
and if you're just coming,
we're having beef and beer.
We don't need fancy donuts.
We're going to try these,
something savory.
We're going to try these hers famous crab fries.
Seasoned potato chips with white creamy cheese sauce flavoring.
So we're going to dig into these.
Who brought those?
Over there.
Oh yeah.
What's your name?
All right, thanks Chris.
Appreciate it.
All right, so let's dig into these.
I thought my friends brought them,
which is why I brought it up.
I don't really care who brought them
if they're not my friends.
He took two, one at a time.
Yeah, chomp chomp pass.
Are these a Philly thing?
I don't know.
Is hers Philly?
Oh, chicken and peets.
Chicken and peets.
Boy, I love, I really like that.
That's like a,
it's like a really plused up barbecue,
but without the sweetness,
it's just that spice.
That's the part you left out,
is the chicken and peach,
which is a Philly thing.
Oh, okay.
I think it started in Mayfair.
These are great.
These are, these rule.
These are awesome.
Snack.
Snack.
Snack.
Snack.
Snack.
Double snack.
Double snack.
You know the issue with this,
this segment which we cooked up,
which I'm realizing is that people,
people just bring us delicious things.
And so we're just like, oh yeah,
this is good.
And it's like,
Oh, so do we have to eat the whole box?
By the way, I,
okay, here's the thing.
My mom and I went to Giant
because Tasty Cakes were on sale.
They were four for $10.
And I bought like $40 worth of Tasty Cakes.
So there's some over by the T-shirts.
Wow.
For free.
Anyway, bought a lot of Tasty Cakes.
Nagle, did you want us to try those peanut shoes?
Or is it for the audience?
Oh yeah.
All right.
We're going to try these peanut shoes.
Then we're going to take some questions
from the audience.
This is original dark.
Does that mean dark chocolate?
Yeah.
What do you think it would mean besides that?
I don't know.
Okay.
Yes.
It does.
One thing I, you know,
I want to say this about,
wow, they have a lot of fun drinks.
I didn't really get to say that.
I shouldn't have said this.
It's because everyone else said it.
Like Kool-Aid Pop.
You know the old Kool-Aid plastic bottle,
Kool-Aid Pop things?
They were in the fridge.
There was fun stuff there.
Oh, fuck you guys.
It's fun.
I brought these because I was handing them out
during my opening bit,
but I was using Tasty Cake Boxes as boxing gloves
and didn't think,
oh, how am I going to give out the peanut shoes
if I have Tasty Cake Boxes on my hands as boxing gloves?
So I didn't get to give them out.
So that's why I have them here.
These are delightful.
All right.
The Goldenberg's Peanut Shoes.
This is great.
I really like the peanutty flavor inside
and the dark chocolate is a nice compliment to it.
I told you I wasn't here to pander.
I'm going to whack on these.
Wow.
Wow.
What's how you like about them?
My personal preference is not to eat dark chocolate.
I don't like it.
I think it's nasty.
Boom, me.
God damn it.
Carl, you revealed a...
The Pasta León Donut was a snack.
A whole snack.
The chips, a whole ass snack.
This?
Not for me.
Carl, you revealed that you have some...
You have a mild chocolate allergy,
which I haven't heard of before.
Yeah.
When I was growing up,
I think I have grown it now.
Outgrown it, okay.
It makes me...
It gave me eczema.
So you have a little bit of an aversion to it.
Maybe even just psychologically.
But dark chocolate just should be outlawed.
Wow.
Dark chocolate is nasty.
Wow.
Who wants to eat that?
Candy is supposed to make you happy.
Wow.
It's supposed to make you feel good.
Carl feels hurt.
It's supposed to reward you.
Why would you want to eat poison?
I go snack on these.
They're not...
I like the other two better,
but I still go snack.
I also might have to put down like a newspaper later,
because...
Why is my spot the messiest?
We didn't plan well for this.
We should have had a roll of paper towels or something.
We just got a bunch of junk
all over this lovely tablecloth.
It'll be all right.
Guys, that was the snack or wax...
The next deck.
I don't know.
Do we put this back if anyone wants their snacks back?
Or do we just take this with us?
Yeah, we can put it in my room back at the Airbnb.
Just like a restaurant by your feedback.
Let's open up the feedback.
So we've got some audience questions
we got from you guys earlier.
Who's our first questioner?
Who do we have out there?
We got Breanne Needles.
Hi, Breanne.
Needles, like Back to the Future.
Oh, there you are.
Like Flea's character from Back to the Future 2?
It is.
Needles.
Yes, yes, like Back to the Future 2.
Right.
She hates it.
He was always kind of scary.
So my question is,
what is your pre-show ritual if you have one?
Hmm.
I heard a...
Can I share this?
This is not my pre-show ritual,
but a thing I heard...
I'll say this is alleged for my own protection
that Bill Maher before every episode of Real Time
jacks off in his dressing room into a silk handkerchief.
Flex King.
I was a page on that show.
Were you ever on handkerchief duty?
Yeah.
It was after the show started.
New rule.
I want these hand washed.
Man, that's nasty.
I mean, I don't really have a pre-show ritual.
The three or four hours leading up to a show.
Yeah.
You can usually find me on the toilet.
Just sitting.
You know what I do?
I'm backstage.
I'm sitting in the wings just before I walk out,
and I usually will text my wife and I'm like,
hey, I'm about to go on.
I'll talk to you in a bit.
And that's what I do.
I usually send a nice little message to my spouse,
and then she'll usually reply with something supportive.
I usually do a prayer circle and I make our guests join me.
Yeah.
Regardless of their religious affiliations.
Yeah.
We pray to Allah.
No, I just like will watch Wyger like being like saying to himself
like in 1927, two brothers came together and I watched him do his like
weird little thing.
Oh, right.
And then I'll usually order a drink or something and be like,
did I forget anything?
And I usually have.
I've woken up from a nap usually.
Right.
And I'm like, yeah, bathroom, bathroom mostly.
Bathroom was correct.
You got to get the lead out before you get on stage.
Bill Maher does it.
I just do it in a different way.
I do the Ray Lewis dance where I shoot somebody.
Thank you, Needles.
Next question.
Thank you, Needles.
I guess often do a silk handkerchief.
Thank you.
Oh my God.
Next question.
You got Sarah Armstrong.
Hi, Sarah.
Where are you at?
There you are.
Sarah is way over in the other wing.
Nope.
She's left.
Sarah's left.
She walked out within the first five minutes.
Oh, no, here she is.
There she is.
She's over there.
Big fan.
I was actually at the show last night in D.C.
Hell yeah.
Wow.
What are you doing?
Sorry, this one's not as good.
What the hell?
This one's twice the show of that shitty show.
No, I'm from Philly, but I live in D.C. now.
But anyway, my question was, are there any chains that you had an embarrassing moment,
or restaurants in general, where you had an embarrassing moment at one point
and so now you're too nervous to go back to that restaurant or chain?
Boy, that's a good question.
Not a chain, but there was a pizza place in Westwood Village,
which is just south of UCLA, where I went to school,
where I, it's called La Monaca's Pizza,
and it was one of those pizza by the slice places.
And I got up to, like, I ordered my pizza,
and I got to the register, and they handed me my pizza,
and I just, like, I just turned and started walking out without paying.
And the guy was like, hey, man, what the hell?
And then this other guy was, like, standing in, like, in my way,
and he, that other guy, that customer,
starts going like, he was going to run out on you.
I stopped him.
But he was going to run out on you.
And, like, I went back to, and it was, like, this guy had shamed me in a pain,
and I was like, well, I can't go back here.
This was humiliating.
I also had another incident where I went to a, there was a gas station
where I used to get a fountain drink every day as, like, a, you know, a work break.
I was working an office job in the video game industry,
and I would go there and get a fountain drink on my break.
And one day I was saying to the guy behind the counter,
and I was like, oh, thanks, man.
There's a guy I saw every day, and he goes,
ma'am, like, he's all offended.
Like, I called him, like, a woman, and he took that as an insult.
And I was, like, so startled by it that it didn't react.
And then I was like, well, now I can't go back there.
This guy thinks I insulted his honor.
Can I be real with you? You need to stay inside.
That's what I'm saying.
So I don't want to do these tours.
I've told my story before, but I, back in my first year in LA,
I worked on this movie, The Trouble with Romance.
Oh, you've never heard of it?
I was a PA on that movie,
and it was Gavin Newsom's wife was the star of it.
Her current wife?
Yes.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, or whatever name is?
Yeah, that's his former wife. His new wife,
not new, but it's Jennifer Siebel Newsom,
who has this amazing organization called Misrepresentation.
That's really cool stuff.
Jennifer Siebel was the...
Yeah, dude, who booed him.
Yeah, you booed her.
Misrepresentation does some really awesome work.
I know about nonprofits.
She was the star of this movie.
There was one bathroom on set,
and I...
As I said to you, I had to get the let out,
which was confusing, you said.
I had to go bathroom number two.
I said I had to go bathroom almost.
I had to go... I had to take a number two.
I didn't think it was confusing. I just thought it was pointless.
Christine, his ass is a good.
His ass is a pencil.
Yeah, that was like a mechanical pencil thing.
I didn't realize it was a gun thing.
Look, I had a shit for God's sakes.
Oh, my God.
And I went to a Burger King,
and the men's bathroom was out of order.
This is real.
And I've said this before, but I'll say it again.
And there was a unisex handicap bathroom,
and I went in there and I had a movement,
and someone knocked on the door when I was in there,
and I was like, fuck, this sucks.
This is like my nightmare. I hate that more than anything.
A big guy, I'm taking a poo, and it smells bad.
This sucks.
And so I was like, I'm also in a handicap stall,
so when I opened the door, I started to walk with a limp.
And so I was walking with a limp as I was walking away,
and there was this little old lady,
and she went, help me into the bathroom.
This is true.
I stopped limping.
I gave up on that because she knew it was bullshit.
And I held the door open for her and helped her into the bathroom.
This is real.
And she went, ugh, it stinks in here.
It was one of the worst moments of my entire life.
That's it.
And I would go back to that BK in an instant.
Any embarrassing chain moments from either of our guests?
No chain moments.
I'm on my best behavior when I go into chains.
I have slipped and fell in the club before.
Oh, wow.
In front of some girls.
And it was in a puddle of liquid,
and it was all over my ass when I got up.
Oh, no.
That was pretty embarrassing.
Yeah, not the club.
In the club, straight in the club.
Oh, no.
Yeah, mortified.
This is not a chain story either,
because like Carl, I'm always on my best behavior in a chain.
Right.
Because you know they can tell you,
you can't go to the other chain locations,
so you got to be careful.
This is a story about how when I was 14,
I went to a corner store a couple of blocks away from my house.
A couple of people there in the audience were there when this happened.
We went to, my mom was making Christmas cookies,
and she ran out of flour,
and so we walked to the 7-Eleven,
the aforementioned 7-Eleven, they did not have flour.
So then we took whatever, the $5 cash,
and we walked to Maddie's corner store,
and it got robbed at gunpoint while we were there.
And it's a funny story these days,
but the funny thing is my friends,
I was like paying, and they were waiting for me to hand over cash
so that the cash register would open,
and then the person ran around,
and was like taking money out of the cash register,
and this little old lady was yelling,
and like, I'm watching it happen,
and none of my friends were with me.
They were like another part of the store,
and I was like, oh, that must be her grandson.
And like, I just was like, oh, okay, I'm just like,
watching was 13 or 14.
And then my full reaction was to go, guys, guys, guys, guys.
And then we saw the person at a sawed-off shotgun.
Jesus Christ.
Okay, so in my mind, this is kind of a funny whimsical story,
but saying it out loud and seeing how upset everybody is.
I now understand that maybe it isn't.
But the person jumped over the counter after robbing it
and fell, and my friend Ann Sticko is in the audience right now.
She was walking up, and all she saw was a person fall,
and she started laughing.
That's good.
And then the people ran out,
and I was trying to explain to my other little teenage friends
what happened, and this woman ran up, and she's like,
what happened?
And we were like, the place just got robbed.
And she was like, oh, my God.
And she ran out.
In my memory, it was like a cartoon character with her arms
waving above her head.
And then we later found out that she was like a decoy
because she was ordering meat in the back.
And then the two guys that were like cutting meat in the back
were like, get back here.
And then a bunch of like four 14-year-old girls were like,
we didn't do it.
And they were like, okay, you can go.
And then we just left.
And then we ended up with something like that.
That's wild.
I forgot to say my most embarrassing moment
was that time I robbed that store.
And boy did I tell you I fell.
It's the name of the store.
Carl's always fallen.
It was called the club corner market.
One more question from out there in the audience.
Who do we got?
Chris De Silva.
Hi, Chris.
Where are you at?
That's a cool name.
Where are you De Silva?
Chris De Silva is like an alter ego of a Marvel superhero.
That's great. Thanks.
You're welcome.
Yeah, you did it.
No, I love it.
I'm kind of piling on to the Rocky stuff, I guess.
But we all know that Rocky gets his powers
from his breakfast of raw eggs.
And so I'm wondering what's like the breakfast
that gives you energy for your day?
Even if it like, you know,
isn't your favorite breakfast to eat?
I have an answer for that.
I also want to point out there's some cool,
there's Taco Bell shirts in the crowd.
That's cool as hell. Very cool.
Oh, it's the Bachelorette party.
Greek yogurt gives me that power, Nick.
Greek yogurt gives me the power.
Mitch, on this, you and I are in agreement.
I'll have a little bit of Greek yogurt
with some fresh berries.
Not the one kind that's got fruit on the bottom.
I'll get plain yogurt, I'll get my own berries,
and I'll combine them.
I get the faye, I do the little fold with the faye,
and you put the stuff in the other side.
So much sugar in that.
And you're not as much fiber,
because you're not getting the whole fruit.
I get whole fruit and I put it in there, it's true.
My mama makes it for me when I go home.
And I plan on having one this weekend when we're in Boston.
That's fun.
Yeah, Greek yogurt and fruit is my answer.
Do you get any power breakfast for Nangle or for Carl?
I've gotten into hard-boiled eggs recently.
And I'm just going to say this, scrapple.
Wow.
I don't actually eat scrapple anymore,
but I wanted to feel applause before the end of the show.
There's scrapple in the back, actually, in the green room.
They made us a plate of scrapple.
Big old bowl of fruity pebbles.
There you go.
You were upset about the sugar content of the drinks.
Because I had to read it.
What's your guys' favorite breakfast cereal of all time?
Is it fruity pebbles?
Fruity pebbles is my favorite.
I would say, I might say cookie crisp,
because it's so loaded with sugar, but it's just so good.
But honestly, I got a soft spot for cap and crunch.
As much damage as it does to the roof of your mouth.
I always find it's worth it.
Oh, yeah.
I skip cereal, and I get a wawa egg and cheese hoagie, baby.
There you go.
Jesus Christ.
What?
You think I'm pandering?
Yeah, you're clearly pandering.
Yeah, it's the end of the show.
I'm going to pander.
You know what?
When the Eagles beat the Patriots,
I was like, that's pretty good.
Guys, that's our show.
Carl Tartt, Christine Nagel.
You song and Abba.
Until next time, for the Spoonman Mike Mitchell,
I'm Nick Weiger.
Happy eating.
See ya.
Thank you, Billy.
Breaking chews.
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